What is the “PROCESSING” field on the File Submission page?
This field represents how the file is to be processed by SDWIS/FED: Traditional processing = TRAD (Incremental) Total replace processing = TOTR (total replacement of the data in the system) • What is the “DATA SUPPLIER” field on the File Submission page? This field represents the supplier of the data. (States and regions can submit data via CDX) State = ST Region = RG • What is the “COMMENT” field on the File Submission page? This field represents a freeform two-character alphanumeric comment field, allowing a region and state to instert a value to provide additional meaning to the data set contents. Any blanks will be filled in, by CDX, with the letter ‘b’, in the data set name. If left blank by the user, the data set name will contain the value ‘bb’ in these positions. This will allow users the flexibility to add an additional piece of information to further characterize the data set name. Regional and state staff should reach agreement on the contents of this field. For example, it
